EMERGENCY EVACUATIONS
Survivable aircraft accidents often result in serious injury or death even after the aircraft has come to a stop. Both crewmembers and passengers may become casualties due to fear, unfamiliarity with the type and use of emergency equipment or inadequate preparation.
To compound the problem, passengers may suffer traumatic injury during the landing or be overcome by smoke, fire or toxic fumes. Egress routes may be compromised and exits may be blocked or impossible to open.
Proper training, along a calm and confident manner, as well as utilizing the emergency equipment available to you, will give you the highest probability of success during a stressful emergency evacuation.
AVIATION ACCIDENT REVIEW Teterboro Corporate Accident
NTSB AAR0604 Runway Overrun and Collision Platinum Jet Management, LLC Report
On February 2, 2005 at 07:18ET a Platinum Jet Management (PART 135) Challenger 600 crashed on takeoff at the Teterboro airport. Onboard were 3 Crewmembers, 2 pilots and one Cabin Aid plus 8 passengers. There were no fatalities in the crash. 2 people were critically injured on the ground when the plane struck a car before embedding into a warehouse.
The National Transportation Safety Board investigated the accident and found that the flight crew had miscalculated the aircraft’s center of gravity, and that overfilling the fuel tanks had moved the COG too far forward for flight. No one was killed, but some occupants sustained serious injuries. The airplane was destroyed by impact forces and post- impact fire. The accident investigation revealed that a person provided as a cabin aide to perform passenger service functions was inadequately trained in safety related functions, such as opening the cabin door to evacuate passengers. The passengers and the pilots presumed that this person was trained as a required flight attendant. While not the “cause of the accident”, the associated safety training deficiencies surrounding the cabin aide were published and recommendations were made to the FAA.
NTSB Concerns: Passengers [and Flight Crew] mistakenly believe that a cabin aide/customer service representative on board an on-demand charter flight had received safety training equivalent to that received by qualified flight attendants when in fact that aide/representative might have received minimal or no safety training.
NTSB Final Recommendation: The Safety Board believes that the FAA should require that any cabin personnel on board 14 CFR Part 135 flight who could be perceived by passengers as equivalent to a qualified flight attendant receive basic FAA-approved safety training in at least the following areas: preflight briefing and safety checks; emergency exit operation; and emergency equipment usage. This training should be documented and recorded by the Part 135 certificate holder.
Providing those individuals with basic safety training could provide valuable safety results in an emergency, especially in the event of flight crew injury.
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